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hong kong - a ”liminal city“ and hong kong ink
CHUI PUI- CHEE | RAYMOND FUNG | CHLOE HO | KASSIA KO | VICTOR WONG
30 October - 27 November
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Hong Kong’s Ink Art is a unique product of the city’s cultural and physical ecology – its people, its landscape, and its liminal position between cultures. This exhibition explores the contemporary climate of Hong Kong Ink Art, framed in the pivotal moment of 2020. It explores how these artists interact with and pay homage to the ink artists that have inhabited this vibrant city before them, and how they envisage the future of this unique and thriving art scene. The exhibition examines how this distinctively East Asian artistic medium is used to both express local identities and to interrogate global concerns.
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Raymond Fung, Tolo Harbour, 2012, Ink and colour on paper, 60 x 240cm -
HONG KONG INK
By CALVIN HUI
Hong Kong's ink art, thanks to its unique historic, cultural development and geographical location, is renowned for its distinctive East meeting West artistic presentation. Artists of new generations create their contemporary ink work with the subject matter surrounding the local "Hong Kong living". However artist in Hong Kong do not blindly follow western techniques, instead they bring forth new ideas based on the essence and spirit of traditional paintings. From the perspective of the art market, Hong Kong as a liminal city, contributes to the development of the ink art market. Constantly absorbing foreign culture, Hong Kong has formed its unique vision of bringing ink back to tradition, which culturally connects East and West.
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WE ASKED OUR ARTISTs, HOW DO YOU DEFINE HONG KONG INK ART AND HOW DOES YOUR WORK INTERSECT WITH THIS DEFINITION?
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Chui Pui-Chee
"HONG KONG Ink Art sees a diversity of styles. Most HK ink artists are influenced by Lui Shou Kwan and Liu Kuo-Sung. They followed the techniques and painting theories of the two modern ink masters. On the other hand, the traditional Gongbi techniques are more popular among the young artists. In my paintings, I tried to combine the two techniques. I received a systematic training of traditional Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings in the China Academy of Art. The solid foundation of mastering bimo - brush and ink is important for the creation of my works. Also, I constantly seek inspirations from the works of Lui Shou Kwan and Liu Kuo-Sung in expressing my emotions in the paintings".
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Raymund Fung
"IN HONG KONG, MODERN INK ART HAS ALWAYS BEEN PERCEIVED AS CREAM OF THE CROP AMONGST ALL ART MEDIA, DUE TO THE MAJORITY OF LOCAL COLLECTORS ARE INTRINSICALLY INK ART LOVERS. THIS IS ALSO BECAUSE HONG KONG IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN A EAST MEETS WEST CROSS-OVER CULTURE, WHILST MODERN INK ART EXPLICITLY INVIGORATES THESE QUALITIES. MY INK ART IS INSPIRED BY BOTH CHINESE BRUSH WORKS AS WELL AS GLOBAL VALUES IN A WIDE SPECTRUM".
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Chloe Ho
"Nothing should escape the artist's eye and the wielding of the ink brush. to me that is where my work begins. The universe of my paintings embraces the tradition of Chinese ink - Shan Shui, flowing ink, brushes heavily laden or lightly dipped, paper absorbing and reflecting. But it also must reflect my connection to the West and the uniqueness of Hong Kong- ink, coffee, acrylic and spray paint on paper, canvas or cloth, ink paintings capturing the cosmos, the connection of modernity with nature, our internal and external journeys. The three works included in this exhibition are true examples of these influences. I am delighted to invite you into my world where boundaries are blurred reflecting a new dimension of ink art".
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Kassia Ko
"Painting on-site is a practice shared by many Eastern and Western masters, from Shi-Tao to Claude Monet, resulting in an expansive abstract. Much of MY work is painted in this way, as it enables ME to capture the ambience of the environment and nature- through the deep knowledge of the space, the inner beauty is ingrained in THE artwork. I HAVE a strong connection with the sense of space that is often emphasised in Ink painting. Drawing from MY studies under ink master Hung Hoi and experience as a designer, every layer in MY paintings captures changes in light over time, recording the state of mind and emotions at that moment. It is a time lapse with mono color scheme. I believe that Chinese Painting rarely employs such contemporary ideas, and i'M excited to share MY UNIQUE vision through MY work".
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Victor Wong
“I always wanted to explore how AI could possibly affect traditional art such as Chinese ink painting and also see the unpredictable or contradictory results, hence I taught A.I. Gemini all the basic Chinese ink painting techniques and let it interpret and create its own ‘Mindscape’.” The landscapes that A.I. Gemini painted did not exist in reality. However, those landscapes were still created in A.I. Gemini’s artificial intelligence mind based on the geographical parameters of the real world, just as human painters try to “xieyi” (which is a core and unique Chinese Ink painting technique as the artist tries to sketch one’s thoughts and emotions through painting in a spontaneous yet spiritual way) the landscapes inside their minds through memories or imagination".
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ARTWORKS
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Raymond Fung 馮永基, Dialogue with Wu Guanzhong, 與吳冠中對話, 2020
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Kassia Ko, Tracking Light Series #6, 2015
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